advance
To promote or advantage.
Other meanings
To help the progress of (something); to further.
To raise (someone) in rank or office; to prefer, to promote.
Synonyms
- improve
Antonyms
- retreat
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "ab".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “advance” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.